US Patent 11245729 Group optimization for network communications

Disclosed embodiments are related to grouping sets of intercommunicating objects to minimize the number of rules/policies needed to be stored to enforce those rules/policies. Given a set of objects communicating with each other using different services, embodiments group these objects to minimize the total number of final rules that are implemented. This allows an original set of policies to be reduced into a smaller set of policies, which conserves computational resources. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.